Tiago Santos
![]() Santos with Lille in 2023 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Tiago Carvalho Santos | ||
Date of birth | 23 July 2002 | ||
Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Right-back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Lille | ||
Number | 22 | ||
Youth career | |||
2009–2017 | Sporting CP | ||
2017–2018 | Oeiras | ||
2018–2019 | Sacavenense | ||
2019–2021 | Sporting CP | ||
2021–2022 | Estoril | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2022–2023 | Estoril | 30 | (0) |
2023– | Lille | 22 | (1) |
International career‡ | |||
2023– | Portugal U21 | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:37, 29 March 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 September 2023 |
Tiago Carvalho Santos (born 23 July 2002) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Ligue 1 club Lille.
Club career
Estoril
Santos is mostly a youth product of Sporting CP, with stints at the academies of Oeiras, Sacavenense, and moving to the U23 side of Estoril in 2021. On 9 July 2022, he was promoted to Estoril's senior side for the 2022–23 season.[1]
Santos made his professional and Primeira Liga debut as a starter in a 2–2 tie with Rio Ave on 19 August 2022, which he as assisted on the first goal of the match.[2] He received the Young Player of the Month award in Primeira Liga for April 2023.[3] Santos finished the 2022–23 season with 7 assists in 30 league appearances for Estoril.
During the summer 2023 transfer window, Santos attracted interest from Benfica, who had an offer in the region of €5 million accepted by Estoril for the right-back. However, Sporting CP invoked an "anti-rival" clause inserted into Santos' contract when he joined Estoril, which stated that the Lions were owed €20 million if the player was sold to Benfica or Porto; for that reason, the move collapsed.[4]
Lille
On 5 July 2023, Santos signed a five-year contract with Ligue 1 club Lille, who paid €6.5 million for the right-back.[5]
He made his debut for Les Dogues on 11 August, starting in a 1–1 draw away at Nice in the 2023–24 Ligue 1's opening match.[6] Thirteen days later, Santos made his debut in European competitions, starting in a 2–1 home victory over HNK Rijeka in the play-off round of the UEFA Europa Conference League.[7] On 26 November 2023, Santos scored his first professional goal, from outside the penalty box, in a 2–0 league victory away at Olympique Lyonnais.[8]
International career
Santos made his international debut for the Portugal U21s on 8 September 2023, starting in a 3–0 home victory over Andorra in a qualifying match for the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.[9]
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 29 March 2024[10]
Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Estoril | 2022–23 | Primeira Liga | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 34 | 0 | |
Lille | 2023–24 | Ligue 1 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | 9[a] | 1 | 33 | 3 | |
Career total | 52 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 69 | 3 |
- ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
References
- ^ "Tiago Santos fica na vaga de Soria". www.record.pt.
- ^ "Jornada Three kicks off with action-packed Estoril 2-2 Rio Ave draw". portugoal.net.
- ^ "Tiago Santos não quer falar do futuro: "O foco é agora acabar esta época e depois logo penso"". www.record.pt.
- ^ "Cláusulas anti-rival: Tiago Santos é seguido pelo Benfica e "custa" 20 milhões". www.ojogo.pt.
- ^ "Estoril vende Tiago Santos ao Lille". Maisfutebol.
- ^ "Com Tiago Santos titular, Lille de Paulo Fonseca arrecada empate nos instantes finais" [With Tiago Santos starting, Paulo Fonseca's Lille draws in the final instants]. OneFootball (in European Portuguese). 11 August 2023. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ "Play-off da Liga Conferência: Lille de Fonseca ganha, APOEL de Sá Pinto perde" [Conference League play-off: Fonseca's Lille wins, Sá Pinto's APOEL loses] (in European Portuguese). O Jogo. 24 August 2023. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ "Tiago Santos marca e o Lille vence o Lyon" [Tiago Santos scores and Lille beats Lyon]. A Bola (in European Portuguese). 26 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "SUB-21 A crónica do Portugal-Andorra" [SUB-21 Portugal-Andorra chronicle] (in European Portuguese). A Bola. 8 September 2023. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ Tiago Santos at Soccerway
External links
- Tiago Santos at Soccerway
- 2002 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Lisbon
- Portuguese men's footballers
- Portuguese people of São Tomé and Príncipe descent
- Black Portuguese sportspeople
- Men's association football fullbacks
- Portugal men's under-21 international footballers
- Primeira Liga players
- Ligue 1 players
- G.D. Estoril Praia players
- Lille OSC players
- Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in France